Contaminates vs Contaminants - What's the difference?

As a verb contaminates

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(contaminate)

(contaminat)

To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.

Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.

This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.

To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.

* Shakespeare

Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?

* Goldsmith

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .

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